Rep. Beck faces deadline to take plea in fraud case

7:23 AM,
Nov. 1, 2013

Rep. Peter Beck

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Ohio Rep. Peter Beck has until mid-December to decide whether to plead guilty or set a trial date in his securities fraud case after a judge agreed to delay a Thursday hearing to his lawyers more time to review tens of thousands of pages of evidence.

The Mason Republican appeared before Judge John Andrew West in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, where he faces charges that he gave investors bad information about a software startup company called Christopher Technologies.

Beck pleaded not guilty in July to the 16 felony counts. The hearing to set a trial date had already been rescheduled once. ...